Hall argues that Senegambia is the root of traditional African-Creole culture and she gives sound documents and arguments to back up her claim. ... The arguments in this chapter are backed by many stories and documents of events that lend credence to Hall's very intriguing and sound debate. ... Hall then makes a sound claim how all these conditions combined to create "the most Africanized slave culture in the United States" (161). ... The last point in the book that Hall makes in this book is that the Louisiana cultural tradition of racial openness couldn't be entirely des...

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There is still a notable absence of any music or sounds. ... Then follows a series of low angle to long and full shots of the Amish and Book working on the barn with no dialogue; loud and euphoric music starts playing during the aforementioned montage of shots symbolising the Amish working in unison and a series of mid shots featuring Book and Daniel sharing a drink and working together as Daniel slowly accepts Book shows Book's acceptance into the Amish community. The interjecting mid shots and the boisterously euphoric music accompanying the montage with no dialogue at all during the ...

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Harvey argues that a sound structure must be put in place by governmental forces to maximize the collective influence. ... In her introduction to her book, Appiah mentions that these international disputes have arisen typically when governments assume the responsibility to act for their citizens, "And the possibilities of good and of ill are multiplied beyond all measure when it comes to policies carried out by governments in our name" (Appiah, xii-xiii). ... In the introduction to his book "A Brief History of Neoliberalism," Harvey examines the process in which markets suc...

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For example, from Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, Alice writes about the pain and experiences that she has faced or has witnessed. ... Alice writes and communicates in her book the way her culture engaged and wrote when using their own literacy, thus, helping her keep her cultural literacy meaningful. ... They take literacy from their culture and reinvent it to fit soundly into other cultures, where the message taker can interpret the meanings and thoughts from their own cultural background (connecting with the African-American literacy styles). ... When reading from the book T...

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"A more confident speaker of English I didn't trouble to listen to how strangers sounded anymore at last, seven years old I came to believe what was technically true since I was born I was a US Citizen". ... John De Crevecoeur takes on an interesting outlook on the American Identity Crisis in his book The Language of Literature: American Literature; "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. ...

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Abstract Ravaged by war, violently pushed out of their home country, separated from their extended family and friends, and evacuated to a foreign country where they have no commonality, Vietnamese refugees faced the worst after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. Although they are caught between two ...

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